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Public Safety Minister Vic Toews answers the tough torture question and responds to critics on the left who would prefer to do nothing when Canadian lives are at risk. This report aired on The Source August 31 2012....

Sometime in the next few weeks, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is
expected to be appointed to the Manitoba Court of Appeal. The Toews
appointment is among the worst
kept secrets in Ottawa, with the move causing a domino effect
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(Part 1) Taking Hostages: Research Funding to “Prevent Terrorism” Earlier this year, on January 25, 2012, Canada’s rather infamous and unpopular Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews, announced the first call for proposals for the Kanishka Project, “a multi-year investment in terrorism-focused research by the Government of Canada”. (It’s somehow both chilling and comical: that [...]

Vic Toews, Canada's public safety minister, wrote to Leon Panetta, the U.S. secretary of defence, Thursday telling him that before Canada decides whether or not to allow Omar Khadr, the al-Qaida terrorist, to transfer here from the Pentagon's prison...

The CBC reports
hat it obtained documents under the Access to Information Act in
which the government tries to justify statements from Public Safety
Minister Vic Toews that Bill C-30, the online surveillance bill,
would have assisted with the Luka Magnotta investigation. I appeared
on CBC's Power and Politics to challenge the claims.

For the second time this year, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has
found himself at the centre of a major privacy backlash. In February,
Toews was the lead on Bill C-30, the Internet surveillance legislation
hat sparked a huge public
outcry
hat forced the government to shelve the bill within ten days. Show More Summary

Bill C30, the sweeping Canadian warrantless Internet surveillance bill, is back from the dead. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (who declared that opposition to his bill was tantamount to support for pedophiles) has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his legislation, joining forces with the US government in the name of "perimeter security." This [...]

As the search for Luka Magnotta continues, Public Safety Minister VicToews has used the case as an opportunity
o claim
hat Bill C-30 would have helped with the investigation. According to
Toews,
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Canada's proposed Internet surveillance was back in the news last week
after speculation grew that government intends to keep the bill in
legislative limbo until it dies on the order paper. Public Safety
Minister Vic Toews denied the...Show More Summary

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has stated that the Tories’ Bill C-30, the online surveillance bill, is not dead in the water as has been reported in some places. What’s more the bill is going ahead through the political process.
“Our government has been very clear, that matter will be referred to a parliamentary committee. In [...]

Remember Canada's Bill C-30, the sweeping surveillance bill proposed by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who declared that if you opposed unlimited, unaccountable, secret warrantless snooping on networked communications by the police and by appointed civilians, you "stand with the child pornographers?" The bill that was a sure thing to pass, given the Conservative majority [...]

The Globe's John Ibbitson has a column
hat confirms much of the private speculation about lawful access,
namely that the bill is going nowhere so long as Vic Toews remains
public safety minister. This is consistent with the prevailing...Show More Summary

Maher Arar, a Canadian who was rendered to Syria for years of brutal torture on the basis of bad information from Canada's intelligence agencies, writes in Prism about the revelation that Canadian public safety minister Vic Toews has given Canadian intelligence agencies and police the green light to use information derived from torture in their [...]